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The Germans and Poles ia bo
Germany and Austria are exceedin
" irritated by u. ukase Just issue
by tho Russian GoveAment. ForeigI
ers are forbidden by this decree 10 q
quire freeholJs in Russia, aud orde
ed to dispose Of those they posses
This measure effects the nrisfDcrae
in both the German Empires yel
nearly, rs most of the great familit
possess estates in Russian Polar
and ii is said to be contrary !:
the provisions of the Trensies ]
1916. The measure is not intended
prevent absenteeism, bnt to- redu,
the German influence in Poland 81
serve rs reprisaIs for the expulsion
Poles from East Prussia ordered b
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from $4,000 to $3.50, 900 from the adj
vance in price. 1t is not thought that
the present high prices can long be
maintained, but the market will not
reach its normal condition while the
spectators retain their control of the
main sources of supply. If the present
situation continues until the coming
years crop is shipped to market the
people of this country will pay $780,
600 900 more for their coffee this year
than they paid last year. If the fears
in regard TO the decreased supply in
the coffee-producing countries are real
lied, there will of course be a greatly
reduced consumption of coffee among
the people, an increased consumption
of tea, with some advance in prices of
the latter, and we fear also an increased
demand for alcoholic and fermented
drinks; for whatever may be thought
of the healthfulness of coffee as a regu
lar beverage, there can be little doubt
that its more general use in recent
years has much lessened the desire and
demand for stronger drinks.
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northern mem and this is partly lifelong
habit and partly owing to climatic influences,
which are said to more or less affect all
southern people by their facilitating effects
| confess my greatest sympathy reached out
toward the " poor white trash" as they are
often called. To see them is to realize at
once their condition since and before the
war. During slavery times, many--yes, /
suppose the most-of this class were the ten
ants of shareholders plantations, occupy
ing condition of dependence for assist
ance for seed to SOW and plant, and supplies
for families till harvest or market-time lit
tie better than the slave himself, and so
much void OF an ability to maintain any de-
gree OF independence, either of thought or
action, that they became the easy prey of
the political charlatan and went to the polls
TO cast just such votes as their landlords
make laws to grind them still lower down
in the scale of humanity. There is yet hope
for these in the schools, which will aid the
generations coming on to obtain an educa-
ton that will lift them above the illiteracy
of the parent, and in this way produce a
greater degree of independence of thought
and action But the parents of to-day are
literally the "hewers of stone and the
drawers of water" as shown by the women
who come to town five or ten miles, perhaps
with pals of berries in their season; and
the men, with mule and donkey, or OK and
COW, yoxed side by side are the drawers of
wood TO the market. This class, seemingly,
are as much or more despised or neglected
by the other class mentioned as is the
Niger" and as a rule the negro is oftener
employed for jobs and days work than this
class of the white race l.. w. JONES.
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Speculation i'm Coffee.

There has been an advance of one
hundred per cent in the price of coffee
within year, owing in part to the
short crop in Brazil and the supply
falling short of the demand and in part
to wild speculations in the coffee mar
ket. The Brazil crop has fallen about
one million bags below the expectation
a year ago, and what is called the leaf
disease has nearly ruined the coffee
production in Java and Ceylon. Even
with full crop, the consumption has in
creased more rapidly than the supply.
But the principal trouble is that the
market has fallen almost wholly into the
hands of SPECTATORS, many of whom do
not hold any coffee otherwise than on
paper. 1t is stated that the stock of cof-
fee on hand does not justify the present
advance in prices. The wholesale deal
ers have advanced prices, and of course
the retail dealers are compelled to do
likewise. Many large concerns are
holding large quantities for further
expected rise, and it is reported that
several importers have already netted
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The Sunny SOuth--.NO. 3.

Editor Wdtchmdn:-Much more has been
said, and can be again, of the people than
shall attempt; but | saw them in all condi-
tons, both on week days and Sundays, and
| shall speak advisedly of them. To me
there seemed to be four classes in the make
up of the whole, viz; the whites, or upper
class; the much degraded and despsed
poor whites; the better or more intelligent
blacks and those which constitute much
the larger part of the black race, in their
poverty and filth as seen by look into
their cabin doors or shown by the offspring
standing outside. OF the first class let me
say that the older portion were of the slave
holding Sort and think are honest in saying
that they are glad slavery is forever abol-
ished. They are not unwilling to converse
with northerner on politics, or the war
and its results, but are courteous, obliging
and DESTROYS of northern immigration, en-
terprise and money to come among them
but so far as their regard for and sympathy
with the colored race is concerned, IL APP
pears that they despse them as much as
ever and have never been educated TO spell
negro except with two g's. They claim, and
we Judge with reason, that the Niger I"
cannot be trusted for anything nor any
where. Their word is "no good" they
" disremember everything ever promised
The younger class Chose born just before
the war and since, who never saw slavery in
its beauties) we find progressive but Slow
having none of the rush and push of our
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Notes and Opinions.

GERMANY is said to look upon the
recent events in France as an assur-
ance of peace.
GENERAL BUTLER isn't out of poll
tics yet, for Butler club has just been
organized in Boston.
THE best anti-poverty crusade"
possible is made by industry, economy
and temperance.-Wom an'S Journal.
THE recent letter of Judge Cooley
on the interstate law is said to have
been unauthorized by his colleagues on
the commission.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw thinks the
labor, the liquor and tariff questions
will assume large proportions in the
next presidential campaign.
THE present French republic has ex-
listed sixteen years and eight months
and had twenty-five ministers, or new
ministry every nine months.
ADMIRAL PORTER predicts that within
two years "our people will demonstrate
to the world that they are capable of
doing all their own ship-building.
NEWS must be scarce in Pennsyl-
vania. The father of Charley Ross
has been informed that his long-lost
son is in the Connecticut state prison.
THE New York Sun says that the
attitude of Minister Phelps in regard
to the Irish question is an insult to
millions among the citizens of this
country"
Hon. CHARLES II. SAWYER (repub-
lican) was last week Wednesday elected
governor of New Hampshire by the
legislature, there having been no cleo
ton by the people.
GLADSTONE writes that as the union
ist-liberals assisted in passing to the
second reading the permanent coercion
bill the Irish question is virtually set
tied for the present.
THE democratic Nashville american,
one of the most influential dailies in
the South, has declared for protection
as the future economic policy of the
South, The northern free-traders don't
like this.
THERE is $61 100000 more money in
active circulation among the people of
the United States now than there was
! ten months ago. And yet there are a
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pated is probably the Crimean war.
Her reign has also witnessed the repeal
of the corn-laws, the chartist agitation,
the Indian mutiny, the assumption of
the direct government of India, the re-
form bill of 1866, the wonderful growth
of the British colonial possessions, the
confederation of the Canadian prov
inces, the disestablishment of the Irish
church, the introduction of the ballot,
the Egyptian war, the elementary edu-
cation act and other events of hardly
less importance. The great Irish ques-
ton remains unsettled, and it may well
be doubted if Victoria lives to see the
termination of the unhappy conflict.
Her government has been conducted
by the successive administrations of
Peel, Lord John Russell, Earl Derby,
Earl Aberdeen, Palmerston, Earl Rus
sell (1S65-6), Disraeli QS6S), Gladstone
QS6S-74), Disraeli QS74-SD, Gladstone
OSS1-6), and Lord Salisbury, the pres
ent premier.
During these fifty years there has
been such religious, industrial, scien-
tific and literary progress as to make
the reign of Victoria one of the most
remarkable in English history. To
write of these subjects would be to
write long story. To mention names,
even, is to recall the wealth of En-
glands literature and science. The
list is by no means exhausted when we
mention Browning, Ruskin, Tennyson,
George Eliot, Thackeray, Dickens,
Carlyle, Darwin, Froude, Huxley, Tyn-
dali, Spencer, Swinburne and Macauley.
Victoria's rule has covered years of
great activity, marvellous in the variety
and importance of the things accom-
plished; and if she has had little share
in inspiring and promoting these
achievements, it may at least be said
that she has placed few obstacles in
the path of progress.
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Death of Ex-Vice- President
Wheeler.

William A. Wheeler, eX-vice-presi
dent of the United States, died at his
home in Malone, N. Y, Saturday fore
noon, and his funeral occurred yester-
day. He had been an invalid for a
number of years, and the immediate
cause of his death was softening of the
brain. Mr.. Wheeler was born in Ma
lone in 1919, and began the practice of
law at an early age. He had been a
student in the University of Vermont,
but on account of the death of his
father he did not complete his course.
After holding several county offices, he
served several terms in both branches
of the legislature. He was elected to
congress in 1860 and served a single
term. In 1866 he was again elected to
three succeeding terms. In that body
he was esteemed as one of the specially
strong members and gained national
reputation. For many years his inf1u
ence in the politics of northern New
York was greater than that of any
other prominent republican in that
region. In 1876 he was nominated by
the national republican convention for
vice-president on the ticket with Mr..
Hayes, and both were elected. The
nomination came unsought and I'M
expected. After the expiration of his
term Mr.. Wheeler withdrew from pub
lie life, and his late years have been
spent in comparative seclusion. AL
though chiefly known in the country at
large through his political associations,
he yet had been engaged considerably
in business, and in that line with
marked success. For several years he
was connected with banking and rail-
road affairs. He possessed the faculty
of fine discrimination, both in private
and public affairs, and among wide
circle of friends and acquaintance he
was respected by all, irrespective of
party. The loss of his wife was ter
rible blow to him, and having in
previous years lost two brothers and
two sisters, his bereavements naturally
had their effect upon him. His life at
Malone was always marked by noble
deeds of kindness and benevolence,
and good work in public enterprises
looking toward the welfare of the COM
munity and the people.
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Senator Sherman's Speech.

Senator Sherman had an enthusiastic
reception at Springfield, ILL.,, last
Wednesday, where he addressed the
republican members of the legislature
and large assemblage of citizens on
the political issues of the day. He re-
viewed the position of the two parties
before and during the civil war, and
the political results to the nation. He
charged President Cleveland with in
gratitude to the Union army, as was
shown in &C. his innumerable vetoes of
private pension bills and his indiffer-
ence to the suffering of invalid and in
digent Union soldiers scattered through
the country" Touching the tariff ques-
ton, he declared that Mr.. Randall may
resist the free-traders, "but he will
learn the same lesson so many demo-
Gratis before him have learned. The
confederate constitution declared in so
many words that no duties or taxes on
importations from foreign nations shall
be laid to promote or foster any branch
of industry, and that is the creed of
the democratic party" Abiding to
the Presidents treatment of the civil
service law, Senator Sherman showed
how an ingenious way had been found
by the administration to get rid of the
law by requiring old and experienced
employees, who have become by long
training invaluable to the public serv-
ice, to pass school examination to
test whether they ought to be retained
or not; and how more than four-fifths
of republican officers not embraced in
the civil service law have been dis
placed by the President. In regard to
the issues that divide the great parties,
the senator said the republican party
would still insist upon a free ballot,
fair count and correct returns; policy
that would further develop and diversity
American industry, and every measure
that would foster home industries, pro-
tect commerce, increase educational
facilities and secure the equal enjoy
ment of every civil and political right.
One of the strong points of his speech
was that the elections throughout the
large part of the country have not
been carried honestly, but for years
by constant fraud and in deliberate
violation of the laws of the United
States; that majority in the popular
branch of congress and in the electoral
college has been secured by these
methods, and that President elected
by violation of law now sits in the
chair of Washington. All this is I'M
deniable, but of course it does not
please those who have profited by these
usurpations. They would prefer to
have their dark deeds forgotten, but
the questions involved are too vital to
be thus disposed of.
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Hay Facts.

A leading hay-dealer informs me that the
hay-trade has become so large as to exceed
the present capacity of the railroads. The
latter have not cars enough for such trans
portation, but it is probable that a large
number will be built as soon as possible. 1t
is said that New York is the largest hay
market in the world, the annual consump-
ton being estimated at S2,50O,000 bales. |
well remember the time when score of
barges were sufficient for the business and
the river counties afforded a supply AT
present, however, it is brought from Ohio,
Indiana and even Kansas Large quantities
also come from Canada, and the business
gives employment to nearly thirty large
commission houses and as many more of
lesser importance. The value of the hay
used in the city is $4,000 week, or nearly
SS,0O0O00 a year. When you add to this
the immense quantities of feed consumed
here it will give some idea of the expense
of housekeeping in the metropolis. Board
ing stables charge from $50 to S35 month
for each animal. Another feature in this
business is the day customers" class of
business men who drive down from Harlem
and have their horses cared for until they
return in the afternoon. The charge for
feed and care is fifty cents a day, which
certainly is very reasonable.-NeC York
Ioffpr
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Southern Textbooks.

The attention of people in the
North has frequently been called to
the character of some of the text
books prepared by sympathizers with
the " lost cause" during the war and
since, for use in the southern schools.
Their purpose seems to be to falsify
history, inspire hatred of the northern
people and glorify the rebellion. An
exchange gives some extracts from an
algebra written by General ID. II. Hill
at a time when, before the war, he was
professor of mathematics in Davidson
College, North Carolina. This algebra
is said to be still in use in some south
ern schools. The following problems
are interesting and amusing:
The field of battle at Buena Vista is six
and half miles from Saltillo. Two Indiana
volunteers ran away from the field of battle
at the same time; one ran half a mile per
hour faster than the other, and reached
Saltillo five minutes and fifty-four and six
elevenths seconds sooner than the other.
Required, their respective rates of travel
A Yankee mixes certain number of
wooden nutmegs, which cost him one
quarter of a cent apiece, with a quantity of
real nutmegs worth four cents apiece, and
gains 1915 by the fraud. How many
wooden nutmegs were there?
A gentleman in Richmond expressed a
willingness to liberate his slave, valued at
$1,000, upon the receipt of that sum from
charitable persons. He received contribu-
tons from twenty-four persons, and of
these there were fourteen-nineteent fewer
from the North than from the South, and
the average donation of the former was
four-fifths smaller than that of the latter.
What was the entire amount given by the
latter?
The year in which the governors of Mas
sachusetts and Connecticut sent reasonable
messages to their respective legislatures is
expressed by four digits The square root
of the first and second is equal to three the
square root of the product of the second and
fourth is equal to four; the first is equal to
the third and is one-half of the fourth. Re-
tuC yChi'
1t is stated that other textbooks are
used in southern schools which con-
tain much that is Objectionable to peo-
pie who were loyal to the Union cause,
and that one of the houses which print
this class of books has even audaciously
attempted to introduce them in north
ern schools. The Troy Times, in dis
cussing the effort made in Saratoga
year or two ago to secure a recommen-
dation for one of these books, which
was defeated by the veterans of the
Grand Army, pertinently remarks; in
time, perhaps, this mode of distorting
history in the interest of sectionalism
will entirely disappear, but there ought
to be way of suppressing it at once,
and thereby preventing the youth of
the country from imbibing false and
dangerous notions.
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The Victorian Jubilee.

The preparations by the loyal SUBJ
jects of Queen Victoria for the celebra-
ton of the fifty-frst anniversary of her
accession TO the throne of the British
empire are on an extensive scale. Two
or three years ago there was a contro-
versy whether 1886, which marked the
beginning of her fiftieth year on the
throne, should be preferred, or whether
June 20, 1887, should be celebrated as
the browning day of her long reign.
The latter was finally selected, after
much discussion. The event will be
commemorated by the founding of an
Imperial Institute devoted to India and
the Colonies, mechanics institutes,
hospitals and other works of public
utility, and in many other ways; and of
course there will be joyous festivities,
military pageants, civic professions and
nightly Examinations.
The story of the Queens life may be
briefly told. She was the daughter of
The Duke of Kent and of Princess Lou
Use Victoria of SaXe-Coburg, and was
born May "a, 1919. She was CAREFUL
educated under the direction of her
mother and the Duchess of Northum-
berland, and was not permitted to min
gle in the somewhat corrupt society of
the court of William w., but remained
in seclusion until she was called to the
throne on the Goth of June, 1887.
Her coronation was celebrated in West
minister Abbey on the 2Sth of June,
1888. Two years later she married
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg. AL
though she is said to have led him a
rather unpleasant life on account of
her imperiousness, she was beyond
question sincerely attached to him, and
his sudden death, in 1861, was pain
full blow to her. They had nine chill
dren-fve daughters and four sons
of whom all but two are still living.
The reign of Victoria is now the
longest in English history, with the ex-
ception of Henry Ill, who reigned
fifty-six years, and George Ill, who
reigned sixty years. 1t has witnessed
great events in her own empire and
vast changes in the affairs of other ma
tons. The Queen can remember the
two kings who preceded her, and Well
ington, Peel, Palmerston and Others
who were veterans in public life during
her youth. During her reign the United
States has had fifteen presidents. The
greatest military event in which the
Great Britain of her time has partici
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Prohibition in Iowa.

Our friend Captain f. j. Hartshorn of
Emmetsburg, Iowa, in renewing his sub
scription for the WATCHMAN, writes us as
follows: -" In Iowa we are prohibitionists-
practically and honestly so, but not for a
third party. Prohibition has come here to
stay until it has had a .f1W and fair trial. 1t
has done much good to this town and gen.
orally throughout the state, and the senti-
ment in Iowa in its favor to-day is stronger
than ever before. In New York Illinois,
and many other states having large cities,
the liquor traffic can at present, probably,
be best controlled and curtailed by high
license and stringent regulations as to sale.
The rum traffic, as carried ON by the saloons
of the land, had come to be a terrible evil,
and it was high time the Christian people of
the land were aroused to its enormity. In
the West, at least, it was organizing and
seeking to become, in fact had become, a
strong political force; but in this state it
has lost much of its political power; and
think it is losing ground everywhere"
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A DISPATCH from Malone says: "Ex-
Vice-presdent Wheeler leaves large prop
erty, which is disposed of by will, the
contents of which is not yet known. The
town is draped in mourning. Public places
have flags at half-mast, and stores and bust
ness houses display the emblems of sincere
esteem. He was great public benefactor
constantly bestowing his means TO help the
poor and needy, provided always that they
appeared worthy of his benefactions. just
how much he has thus disposed of has never
been made public. 1t is known that he has
given 81 900 annually to home and foreign
missions and 500 annually TO the Belmont
church, He gave $4,000 to the Auburn
Theological Seminary and $4,000 TO the
First Congregational church of Malone. He
gave 81 900 TO the building committee of st.
Marks church of Malone and 81 600 to
Chaplain McCabe for the Methodist church
extension, and for other interests near and
dear to him he has given without stint. He
has made it possible for many young men to
go TO college or take course of study at the
seminary. To friends and relatives he has
been giving, with the view of disposng of a
portion of his estate while living and while
he could enjoy the pleasure of assisting
them. To an old friend of his youth, a
struggling minister in the far West, he re-
Gently sent check for $1,000
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08

THREE EFFECTS thousands of re-
markable cures which have been accom-
plished by Hoods Sarsaparilla are due
simply to three effects which this great
medicine has upon those who take it; First,
it purties the blood Second, it strengthens
the system. Third, it gives healthy action
effects no disease can long retain its hold.
1t is forced to leave the system giving place
to health and strength, through the potent
influence of Hoods Sarsaparilla. Sold by
all druggists. Try it,
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b. f. JONES, chairman of the republican
national executive committee, said neither
he nor any other person could say whether
Blaine would come out as presidential
candidate and it depended much on the con-
dition of things in the future. He thought
Blaine was not seeking the nomination.